Show g R T va 1 1 1 aa V A would scope 0 of itu ik dull Diff 0 n it by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN NJ NL bundled years ago there wits was living lit in coin ul europe nil an who ali wim known na as I 1 in men Smi llison and lie wits rather r widely known too especially in vir lie had licul it colli ir r sid erable reputation i us HII an a betula tind lili ids lil i colle ullon of dioro w that ILI was i 4 abit here was till nit of al about ut fill ailin lint it public in in rust certain things about this james Sin libson were for fill till nil inell to lo rend it wits known that lint lio lie waa it it N that lint ln he ens nn all A al of I 1 fald fl ld and that ili ili liu imil liall bevia it n fellow of r tile etoyal hovley hut but people it in savry in ili these condl condi lit he was uni narrIed lie pos possessed essed ample hn chose to heep away front england 1 allo lit in lind lo 10 ila bently uit cut loose from till nil british ties in ili dhori lip lie wits was to 0 o them ni all english expatriate IN ith s lent ofle research iCKo mch its an avocation anik died in ili genon tn tit as 19 nt tile tw of 0 aty a ty four llo ile wag burled till on tile the heights 1 if I ann till ilk glio jt it wt wall then discovered alstom nd that lila its illy in s corlous 01 ions liml lift left li ft it will that thai aused world oil wido lullo astonishment james smithson lit in short halt annl bequeathed his an t ire lit in trust to tile aliu states ot of america to f aund tit nt washington under the lie nahne of 0 tile ho n tin nn establishment for the increase anti of if knowledge men of course there wits n it story back of tills will and liere here it la 19 james smithson wits the alio natural son of blugh I 1 smithson afterward perry borr who become the hie first ali st duke of northumberland of the ho third creation jumps james 1 blide demand lu in 1821 1826 upon ills his blood relatives for recognition under tinder the lie anine of percy tills this recognition wits refused hy by them thereupon james smithson exclaimed very well then I 1 will make tile name of smithson famous when the hie name of percy Is forgotten why did james Sint lison select the united states sit as ills agent in carrying out ills expressed intention to make the nanie of 0 famous it Is hard to say bay lie ile had never been here tile nation wits ana theina to tho the smarting under their defeats in tile ho revolution and the war of 1812 most englishmen of ills his station in life were predicting its down downfall faill that the wish wits was fattier father to the thought was shown immediately upon tile the outbreak of our civil war perhaps james smithson was for the united states because ills his countrymen count were against the young nation perhaps lie he thought the gift would be lit in Ain erlen and would not bein be in england Peili aps lio lie wits unwittingly a prophet ind and had a vision of lily ills expressed purpose fulfilled james estate amounts to 03 congress formally accepted the bequest anti and established the SmIths smithsonian onlan institution by act app approved royed august 10 1848 republic are said to ile bo ungrateful the united states acael ted james Smith sons gift and made use of it hut but fur for 75 7 scars cara apparently there was no ila thought of tile gler alner finally lit in 1904 1004 alexander graham bell the venter ln of the lie telephone moved in the matter t the lie bertys are scotch and doctor hell bell was a transplanted scot james body was afta removed from genoa and brou glit to america sealed scaled in ili tile the original tomb and was placed within it a mortuary chapel erected hear the entrance to the smithsonian institution so it Is that on the mall mail near tenth street in the capital city of the lie united states standi stand the smithsonian institute institution lon lit in effect it Is a century old this year in tact fact for eighty years it has been carrying out the purpose ot of its founder and now its fame Is world wide an and d so BO Is the name came of smithson congress in accepting the gift decided that the federal was without without authority to administer the trust dIrect directly directory ry lind and thO therefore constituted exactly what james had tied bledan an establishment the statutory members of tills this establishment are the president of tile the united lulled states mhd vice ace president the chief justice of tile the supreme court and tho the presidents cabinet the affairs of the establishment ore are adain admin by a board of regents whose membership consists of the vice president the chief justice three members of the senate and three members of the house of representatives together with six other persons other than members of congress two of whom shall be resident in the city of washington and tho the other four shall be inhabitants of some state but po fo two of them of the janie iame one ot of tha regents gents ie la 19 elected chan N A 1 NOW 1 1 V at T bali an ills sol IN r 77 R t 4 W ia A r nf JV WEI collor by the lie board lit in taw lie past fust tile the tills lilia fallen upon tile lie alco ples president ident or tile chief justice justic alio llio s choose a sul suitable table person un as secretary of the lie Is 19 tilso also the secretary of the board ond ind tile officer dir directly ecly lit in charge of thil I 1 listia lit bolls lolls f I 1 the SIth so constituted sees frequent flanges in the hie personnel of tile the and of alio llio lit of regents A change of national for example may put in 0 wally new establishment again the elith deuth t of dent harding automatically ended the sery sen lee of if calvin coolidge both us regent and chan bellor find mado ellade film helli head or of tin lie establishment chief justice taft was elected chancellor in ills bis place again tho the senators on the baard at tile the end of the 1924 10 1 fiscal year were lodge of massachusetts chu mccormick of illinois and stanley of kentucky tile the tenn tors now are smoot of utah pepper tf if pennsylvania and iid ferris of michigan johnson of washington alboro of virginia and newton mew ton of minnesota aro are the present house members on the board dwight IV morrow a member of the firm of J I 1 11 morgan co and recently head bead of the presidents aircraft investigating cominiti comi hax hag just been appointed by joint resolution of congress to the lie board of regents it appointment tn in view of conditions which will be set forth later inter the other civilian members are henry white and frederic A of washington city charles F choate jr of hoston boston robert S brookings of 0 st louis and orwin B laughlin of pittsburgh the world wife fame as a cen enter of scientific act activities in america liaa has largely been due to the work of its secretaries the first three were joseph henry who served from 1840 to 1878 spencer P F baard samuel 11 1 langley 1887 1900 1906 all were scientists of note dr charles D walcott has been secretary since 1007 ile he enjoys worldwide world wide fame as a geologist and as an organizer and executive ills ilia activities aside from his liae have been many from 1002 T 7 tie lie had charge of the organization and conduct of tho ali united states reclamation service lie he wits was secretary of the carnegie institute during 1002 5 its formative period during the he world war ar he was chairman of the national advisory committee for aeronautics and chairman of tile the military section of the national research co council unell lie he lies has been president of the american association for tho the advancement of science the largest organization of scientists in the world ile he la Is n nature lover a national park enthusiast and a leader in the national conference on out door recreation most americans assume the smithsonian to be a government institution a sort of bureau of one of tile the executive departments it la Is note not as the foregoing shows not kot only was it privately founded and privately pria tely endowed it to Is privately directed and the federal government Is 13 merely the guard lim tills this gives the smithsonian freedom from p ibcal influences and at the same game time security and stability the manifold successes of the smithsonian largely come under nailer tile the three headings research cooperation with governments institutions and individuals divi duals and spread of knowledge no fewer fever than ten of the federal governments scientific bureaus have grown out of the smith bonnans Bon son lans researches and ami leeral still remain under its direction these include the colonal Yo lonal nl Alu museum settin this Is 19 one of the most tangible oi 01 tile lie achievements of the sill it began with a binell collection of miscellaneous curlo curiosities it has bus now more than ban sped mens covering cohering almost the whole field of human tute interests rests und and attracting more than a million visitors i a year vear the national Tit lonal gallery of art this includes a number of important individual connections the gifts of public spirited citizens A unit of the national gallery Is the freer gallery of art presented to tho the nation with its building and an endowment by bi charles lang freer 1 bureau of american americ an ii this la isa engaged in the collection and public publication aLlon of information relating to the american indian and natives of hawaii al JV astrophysical observatory tills jilius investigates solar eolar with stations in california art arl ronn roan and chile dr charles 0 abbot famous director of the work vork Is now abroad looking for a site bite for a fourth station in asla asia or africa through the generosity 0 of the national geographical society international exchange service Is the agency of the united states government for the exchange of scientific literary and governmental publications with foreign governments institutions and individuals it handles about packages a its ita shipments abroad going to eighty dla dis Irl buting agencies in fifty four countries the smith conlan evolved tills this service to insure the widest possible distribution of its own publications the world lina hus now adopted the system intel national catalogue of scientific literature Liter atura this organization consists of a central bureau lu lit london and thirty three regional bureaus in thirty three of the nations and publishes an annual classified index the national zoological park this Is the famous collection of about 1800 animals in creek valley in washington congress Cou gress of late years ears has done fairly well in the matter of appropriations for these bureaus andor the direction of the smithsonian the freer gallery of art has its own endowment but the smithsonian institution itself in in financial strat straits tB iii in eighty years its activities have increased a hundred fold while its endowment has only doubled its present endowment Is but 1 2 from which the annual income Is about from hint sum only about la Is available for research and for publications compare these figures with the endowment of the carnegie institution with its income of since the world war does not go very far and gifts hie have fallen off so the smithsonian has found its income so inadequate that it has had to curtail its major services of search research and publication it has been forced to suspend its contributions to knowledge series and to reduce the miscellaneous collections series to one third of the former slie size it has been forced to postpone the otter ng of important manuscripts a and reject other manuscripts of equal importance even the cataloguing catalo guing of its wonderful it library has fallen tar far behind in the major field of research the secre an nual dual report enaes a surprisingly good showing it appears appear however that no less than 18 16 resea research relf projects are now being held imp up for lack ot of fund and must be financed before they can be under taken herein lies the significance of the appointment by bi congress of dwight ll 11 morrow as a member ot of the board ot of regents it Is current report in washington that mr morrow may be elected chau vellor by the board the situation seems to demand that more funds must be had from the american people hy by gift and the board feels feela must head a campaign to raise miss these funds chief justice taft chancellor at this writing does docs not think lie he should be the man for the reason that it might in some way embarrass the head bead ot of the judiciary vice dawes thinks it does not comport with the dignity dignify of his office otherwise he has wd said be would gladly undertake the work nork so washington hits baa its eye on mr morrow and has the idea that he Is the man slated elated for the job la in any event the board of regents has ti bounced that it will ask the american people for it I 1 minimum addition to its endowment |